About the ABP Workforce Data Initiative, Historical Data, and Data Requests

ABP Workforce Data Initiative

Tracking the pediatric physician workforce is essential for understanding its makeup, numbers, distribution, and practice patterns.

We believe these data provides valuable information to pediatricians, pediatric residency and subspecialty training program directors, hospital administrators, policymakers, researchers, and others interested in ensuring a sufficient, skilled workforce supply to meet the health care needs of infants, children, adolescents, young adults, and their families.

While these data are collected primarily to inform operational activities at the ABP and the pediatric community, a number of secondary analyses have been conducted using these data and have been published in the peer-reviewed literature.

For further information, please view our Workforce Methodology Summary (PDF) or contact us at workforce@abpeds.org.

Prior Years' Workforce Data

Previous years' workforce data books are available below in PDF format. Please use caution when comparing data in the books prior to the 2016-2017 book with data in the books from 2016-2017 to the present. The editions from 2016-2017 to the present have removed Canadian programs from the residency and subspecialty tracking data. For more information of this change, please visit the ABP's Workforce Methodology Summary (PDF).


Data Requests

Thank you for your interest in ABP data. We encourage you to first search through our Data and Workforce pages to see if the data you are interested in is already available. Otherwise, please fill out our data request form to begin the official request process.

Please note that all requests are reviewed in the context of the ABP's current data sharing policy and privacy policy. As stated in these policies:

  • We do not grant access to our mailing lists to external entities
  • We are unable to provide data to trainees for the purposes of fulfilling their scholarly activities

Additionally, all requests are reviewed for their alignment with the ABP mission, vision, values, goals and the strategic plan, and whether there are appropriate staff resources to complete a request.

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